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No, the article does not contain more information. It contains more data, but when dealing with genomics you must keep in mind the fact that various codons tra
by stonogo 12y ago
No, the article does not contain more information. It contains more data, but when dealing with genomics you must keep in mind the fact that various codons translate to various proteins, and each of the proteins serve various functions depending on their shape... and proteins can assume different shapes, which changes their effects. This is the importance of protein-folding research.
You hit near it when you gzipped the article -- consider a genome to be an incredibly compressed format, able to explode into a truly stunning amount of information, stored in a relative paucity of raw data.